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There are innumerable channels and blogs which review/discuss fantasy works, most of whom I'll confess to hold in no high esteem, but it is quite remarkable how efficient a litmus test (their opinion of) the works of Tolkien are.
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I'll defend my opinion that anyone whose top 10 favourite books were all written in the last 20 years probably has a rather immature literary pallet. More than anything, I suspect it speaks to an attention-deficit, and perhaps an unhealthy demand for "gritty-ness" in fiction
(I obviously don't require everyone to like Tolkien to have "good taste" - I'd respect a man who preferred Wolfe or Lewis. If, however, their preferred reading consists entirely of latter-year grimdark, perhaps with some Moorcock sprinkled in... that would strike a sour note)
And again, the issue is not Moorcock himself, who is fine as things go - yet he does have a distinct tendency to serve as "older fantasy for people who don't like older fantasy" (he generally didn't either)
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